andrechapelonOh, I remember Y2K very well. My boss and I spent the night at work to be there in case there was any date related system failure. God, we were bored. As I recall, we both agreed that it was the Yawn Of A New Millenium.
Oh I remember that well. I was supposed to be broke, out of power, no water or sewer, all my VCR's would explode, car wouldn't run and I would never be able to eat toast again.
Oh by the way, I just saw where the Weekly World News says that all the Psychics agree with Nostradamus, the world will end this September for sure. Wait, never mind it was last years paper. I need to throw some things away.
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
Heartland Division CB&QRRCanuck I for one believe that the Mayans are perpetrating a gigantic fraud - let's not forget that they were famous for their pyramid schemes. Now, that's funny!
RRCanuck I for one believe that the Mayans are perpetrating a gigantic fraud - let's not forget that they were famous for their pyramid schemes.
I for one believe that the Mayans are perpetrating a gigantic fraud - let's not forget that they were famous for their pyramid schemes.
Now, that's funny!
Best line of the thread, hands down!
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Robby P. I did see on Discovery that if the power grid went out due to this it would be out for years!!!!!! So unless you have some battery controlled engines we are in trouble .
Three words: Solar Power, Baby! A few panels, some inverters and voltage regulators, a bank of deep cycle marine batteries and you can run trains until the sun burns out! Oh. Wait. Is that what is supposed to happen on 12/21/2012? Man. That would be a bummer. Not being able to run trains....
Gone, who's gone, they have just been assimilated!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have long maintained vehemently that this hobby will go on forever! Is 2012 forever?
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
PS PS Please do not tell any of these doom'n'gloomers that the Mayan Long Calender on Dec 21, 2012 will simply click over Long Calender cycle B'ak'tun 13 to the next Long Calendrical cycle B'ak'tun 14...the only cataclysm will be the seperation of alot on money from doom'n'gloomers pockets as they stock up on survival gear. no one apparently remembers the Y2K yahoos and that malarky.
Oh, I remember Y2K very well. My boss and I spent the night at work to be there in case there was any date related system failure. God, we were bored. As I recall, we both agreed that it was the Yawn Of A New Millenium.
Anyone remember Gary North and his apocalyptic predictions? http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/01/33445
I will here refrain from comparing good ol' Gary to any other Prophet O'Doom who has either been mentioned or actually appeared here.
Andre
vsmithPS PS Please do not tell any of these doom'n'gloomers that the Mayan Long Calender on Dec 21, 2012 will simply click over Long Calender cycle B'ak'tun 13 to the next Long Calendrical cycle B'ak'tun 14...the only cataclysm will be the seperation of alot on money from doom'n'gloomers pockets as they stock up on survival gear. no one apparently remembers the Y2K yahoos and that malarky.
Go long on the survivalist companies then----
I can see some pharmas could make serious $$$$ from this-----
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
The Mayans did predict thier own demise. I thought they predicted massive flooding, if so, just think of all the model bridges that will need replacing.
I've already claimed their equipment. I even offered to pay for it.
Springfield PA
Notice to all you Doomsday Armageddonist getting ready for the impending Apocolypse in 2012.
Before you drive off to Idaho to seal yourselves in your underground survival shelters. Please remember to send all your soon to be vaporized model trains to my address. I'll take good care of them in the time left before the Earth does the big firework.
PS any noises you hear on the evening of Dec 21, 2012 will not be me with a fleet of cement trucks dropping a couple cubic yards of concrete on each of your bomb shelters hatches, it really really is the apocolypse taking place! fire! doom! ...
Have fun with your trains
It will mean the final demise of the local hobby shop.
Sometimes, I think that the Mayans may have stopped their calendar on that date because they ran out of funding. They were going to continue into the next age once funds were appropriated, but other pressing matters and politcal infighting kept that from happening.
There will be some who will think the world as they knew it, will have ended on a Tuesday the month before.
Jeff
garr Darth Santa Fe Also on the bright side, the forums won't be messed by trolls and flame wars. Flame wars will return upon reentry into the next world.
Darth Santa Fe Also on the bright side, the forums won't be messed by trolls and flame wars.
Also on the bright side, the forums won't be messed by trolls and flame wars.
Flame wars will return upon reentry into the next world.
Everything will be back to normal then--------
Darth Santa FeAlso on the bright side, the forums won't be messed by trolls and flame wars.
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BobL609I am fairly certain that if we were to put the US government in charge of the event that the event will probably never occur, especially if it required a unanimous vote of Congress.
I am fairly certain that if we were to put the US government in charge of the event that the event will probably never occur, especially if it required a unanimous vote of Congress.
That's a great idea, actually. If they nationalize Armageddon, it will never happen. It will just be added to the national debt, which is pretty much the same thing.
fiatfan There's no point in gluing on the air horn, even with gluons (very clever by the way), since there will be no air for the air horn to horn. (Hunh?)
There's no point in gluing on the air horn, even with gluons (very clever by the way), since there will be no air for the air horn to horn. (Hunh?)
Well, there won't be any air for an air horn to blow, or even make a funny noise like a kazoo. Which reminds me, no one has mentioned that steam locomotives will be useless, because water will simply vaporize and freeze... or is that freeze and vaporize? Either way, building up boiler pressure is going to be a pain in the caboose.
In space no one can hear you steam.
See.......had the Mayans had trains they would have had something to live for after 2012. No trains..............might as well end it on that page!
Roger Huber
SpaceMouseWith all this talk of doom and gloom, I thnk someone should point out the bright side.-Track cleaning will become obsolete-No one will be complaining about Malcom Furlow’s layouts.-Everyone’s structures will be weathered like George Selios’s.-There won’t be any equipment made by the Chinese.-You won’t have to worry about switching to DCC.-Cat’s won’t pee on your layout and mice won’t nest in your tunnels.-N scale won’t appear too small.-Your engines will have exactly the same number of rivets as the prototype.-Your neighbor won't poke fun at you for not being able to reach the turnout in the corner. -No one will be running Tyco cars.-You’ll finally get to meet John Allen.
http://signalshaper.blogspot.com/2005/07/is-life-backwards.html
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
HamltnblueIf the Mayans were so good at predicting, why didn't they predict their demise?
If the Mayans were so good at predicting, why didn't they predict their demise?
While we are out there--the Mayans are not gone, just hiding out. Might explain all the Big Foot sightings around the country.
Jay
The subscription is a month early, so you'll have to get December and January, 2013 before the big bang.
Hm. Interesting thoughts. Especially the subscription. My subscription ends with the November issue so I guess that year maybe I'll buy my December issue at Wal-Mart. Or, maybe I'll just have them "bill me later".
Which of course brings a few things to mind for me.
1. Did they ever think maybe the Mayans just got tired of making calendars? Gotta stop somewhere.
2.If the Mayans could foresee the end of the world coming, why didn't they see the Spanish coming?
3. I do like the caboose. And since I model the current time frame, I could run with a caboose and only have to listen to the jibes for a little less than a year and a half.
4. I could get a home equity loan, a couple more credit cards and a personal loan, run them up to the hilt with MRR stuff really pour the coals to the layout and get a finished project. Before the banks and the law comes to collect everything I own......, it won't matter.
OR, I could assume that like our yearly calendar, theirs will just start over again. Personally I will be glad when their calendar runs out. Not very practical. " Hey, how old are you?" "Well I was born 12.17.8.8.19 and today is 12.19.17.9.1 that makes me.....um.....well, I don't know."
If they are right, with my luck on the 20th of December 2012 I'll finally get weathering down and the color of concrete right.
Oh well, better start picking out which old TYCO I'm going to sacrifice this weekend.
Special press release, to be forwarded to all major news agencies and all significant media outlets.
NASA ANNOUNCES FASTER-THAN-LIGHT SPACE DRIVE!
Washington, DC, December 21, 2012.
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency, after years of secret development, has perfected a propulsion system for spacecraft that is:
The drive will first be applied to the newly-commissioned U.S.S. Philadelphia. If the planned four month cruise to circumnavigate Polaris is successful, additional ships will be acquired, fitted with the drive and sent out to explore solar systems with possible Earth-size planets.
(Body of article, detailing technical factors and projected costs, deleted.)
As NASA Chief Jerry Pournelle was heard to say, "Gentlebeings, the Galaxy is ours!!!"
[And now you know what those ancient Mayans really meant...]
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan on September, 1964 - when not writing science fiction)
Darth Santa FeThe Mayans made a long calender to replace the short ones that had come and gone in the past. When 2012 hits, it will only be the end of a cycle, and the beginning of a new calender. And apparently, it's more likely they thought something super good was going to happen. Could it be that the Mayans predicted the end of the recession? Oh well, this is a pretty good page on 2012.
You know, things were a lot better back in the good old days before the wishy-washy, nanny-state, left-wing liberals abolished human sacrifice. World coming to an end? Cut out a few living hearts, and eveything is back to normal! That was the way to run a universe!
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Hey nothing to worry about the end of the world is on back order from Walthers didn't anyone tell you?
If by chance it does happen figures it would have to happen on my birthday the day ad I can finally collect my pension figures screwed again. Well at least I'll go out with a bang
I think it will. I guess the week before I just won't buy anything else............Just in-case .
I did see on Discovery that if the power grid went out due to this it would be out for years!!!!!! So unless you have some battery controlled engines we are in trouble .
"Rust, whats not to love?"
With any luck, we'll have today's models (steam of course) at yesterday's prices. Well, we can dream can't we ?
Dennis
Hey...I just noticed that the B.L.I. production schedule actually ends 12-21-2012, Hmmmmmm...
Mine doesn't move.......it's at the station!!!
Tom
PS great thread!
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
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